Buchtel High School health class, Akron, 1957

Photograph of Summit County Tuberculosis and Health Association director Robert R. Morrison pointing at a lung x-ray during a health class at Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio. Next to him from the left are: junior Charlotte Korenz, junior Sandra Daub, and health teacher Mrs. Peter Cosmoglos. Along with the demonstration during health classes, Morrison brought the mobile x-ray unit to the school to screen people for tuberculosis.

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Photograph of Summit County Tuberculosis and Health Association director Robert R. Morrison pointing at a lung x-ray during a health class at Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio. Next to him from the left are: junior Charlotte Korenz, junior Sandra Daub, and health teacher Mrs. Peter Cosmoglos. Along with the demonstration during health classes, Morrison brought the mobile x-ray unit to the school to screen people for tuberculosis.

This collection includes photographs of Akron and Summit County, Ohio, selected from the archives of the Akron Beacon Journal and contributed through a partnership between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Images may include crop marks, blacking, opaquing, painting, retouching and other enhancements made prior to publication, including markings that may obscure or revise original elements of the photographs. These markings and enhancements have been left intact intentionally.